[LFS/MM TOPIC][LFS/MM ATTEND]: - Storage Stack and Driver Testing methodology.

[Hannes Reinecke]

On 01/11/2017 10:24 AM, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 10:19:45AM +0100, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
>> Well, something I was thinking about but didn't find enough time to actually
>> implement is making a xfstestes like test suite written using sg3_utils for
>> SCSI.
> 
> Ronnie's libiscsi testsuite can use SG_IO for a new years now:
> 
> https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi/tree/master/test-tool
> 
> and has been very useful to find bus in various protocol
> implementations.
> 
>> This idea could very well be extented to NVMe
> 
> Chaitanya suite is doing something similar for NVMe, although the
> coverage is still much more limited so far.
> 
One of the discussion points here indeed would be if we want to go in
the direction of a protocol-specific testsuites (of which we already
have several) or if it makes sense to move to functional testing.

And if we can have a common interface / documentation on how these
things should run.

Cheers,

Hannes
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